Fish in
the
News.
Each
week the
Bailey
Brothers
start
the Pet
Fish
Talk
Show
with
some fun
and
interesting
stories
about
fish in
the
news.

Fish in
the
News.
Each
Pet
Fish
Talk
Show
starts with
some fun
and
interesting
stories
about
fish in
the
news.

In China,Xi Shun, the world's tallest living man, reaches down into the stomach of a dolphin to remove unknown objects.
Photo: REUTERS

In Italya diver gives the finishing touches to an underwater nativity scene set up into the shark tank of the aquarium of Cattolica, Italy. Photo: AP

In Tokyo,Japan, a Sunshine International Aquarium staff member dressed in Santa Claus costume embraces a large moray eel.
Photo: AP

In
Fushun,
China,
Dolphins
Saved by
Arm
Wrestling.

The
world's
tallest
man has
saved
the
lives of
two
dying
dolphins
in China
by
reaching
deep
into
their
stomachs
to pull
out
pieces
of
plastic,
official
Chinese
media
reported
on
Thursday.
Click
here
to read
the
entire
story.

In
Australia
Batfish
Aiding
Coral
Reef
Recovery.

In a
study
that
marks
progress
in
understanding
the
basis of
coral
reef
recovery,
researchers
have
revealed
the
critical
importance
of a
rare
batfish,
Platax
pinnatus,
in
promoting
the
return
to
health
of a
disturbed
coral
reef
overgrown
with
algae.
Click
here
to read
the
entire
story.

In
Wisconsin
Researcher
has
Whale
Tracking
Job.

Marilyn Marx's view of the water is spectacular. From her second-story home office window, the world renowned whale researcher can look up from her computer to watch the gulls and cormorants as they dive for fish, or lose her thoughts in the trawlers and cargo ships as they cruise in and out of port. The only thing that makes this scene at all peculiar is that the body of water that Marx is looking at isn't the Atlantic but Lake Michigan. And her home: Milwaukee. For more than two decades, Marx has been observing and photographing the endangered North Atlantic right whale. A researcher for the New England Aquarium in Boston, she is one of only a handful of people who can recognize and identify the 350 or so right whales of the North Atlantic. And she does it from her Wisconsin home, where she inspects hundreds of photographs of right whales. Using a digital database, called DIGITS, created by her Aquarium colleague Philip Hamilton, she then compares these photos with the catalogued photographs of the known living right whales. Like an FBI fingerprint catalog, DIGITS uses unique physical data from whales to allow researchers to home in on an identification. Click here to read the whole story.

In
Pennsylvania
Students
Pursue
Inland
Oceanic
Studies.

Recently,
a
17-foot
trailer
arrived
at East
Stroudsburg
University
carrying
thousands
of
dollars
worth of
aquaria,
fish and
amphibian
food,
pumps,
heaters,
and
other
equipment
intended
to help
make
possible
the
creation
of a new
university
marine
science
lab. The
equipment
was
donated
by
Jeremy
Young, a
1996 ESU
alumnus.
Young
feels he
owes his
life, or
at least
his
profession
and
marriage,
to a now
retired
ESU
marine
science
professor,
Dr.
Bruce
Haase,
who
guided
him to
his
livelihood,
the
Pocono
Environmental
Testing
Lab, and
his
wife,
whom he
met on a
marine
biology
field
trip.
Click
here
to read
more.

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for calling during the show to
Waylon from Tennessee.
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